Nonprofit video contests are great. I think they are the most interesting type of online contests, and not just because I like watching YouTube videos.

The benefits of crowdsourcing for crisis information were brought into the limelight in the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake, when Ushahidi, a platform originally developed to map reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election fallout in early 2008, was deployed to provide a map of vital information based on reports coming in from social media and other channels.

We're proud today to release a new report as part of our “Case Studies” from the spring gathering, Promoting Innovation: Prizes, Challenges and Open Grantmaking, a daylong strategy session we co-hosted along with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Domestic Policy Council.

It’s the year 2010, aren’t we supposed to have flying cars by now? And teleports? If you were to ask me 20 years ago what the future would be like, I would have told you about moon colonies, not Twitter.

Edward Norton says, “If you don’t give back, no one will like you.” He was the Incredible Hulk and leader of Fight Club, so I’d listen if I were you.